Turntablist extraordinaire Kid Koala is hitting London this month.
The Canadian DJ, who has wowed crowds across the globe with his quick hand skills and ability to turn anything into a coherent tune, will be playing Koko on March 12th. He will be ably supported by DJ Vadim, a live set by Polar Bear and Mr Thing, which is set to be a stellar night.
Make sure you grab your tickets while they’re still available from www.soundcrashmusic.com
Check out what to expect below:
Atlanta’s garage-rock machine Black Lips return with a brand new video on VBS today of new track “Go Out And Get It” shot in the Bahamas with a bunch of beer and some girls in bikinis. The new track sounds like a return to form for the lads who have been produced in the studio for the very first time by New York knob twiddler, Mark Ronson.
The new album titled Arabia Mountain doesn’t currently have a release date but we have heard 5 tracks on the sly so if you dig their cheeky, psych nuggets tunes of old then rest assured you will be one happy dog when it lands in June.
Good news travels fast and it doesn’t get better than hearing that Battles, Caribou and Les Savy Fav have been picked to curate the bill at December’s Nightmare Before Christmas by ATP.
Each band will headline and choose a line-up of 14 artists for one day of the festival, with Les Savy Fav 9th December, Battles on 10th December and Caribou on 11th December so expect 45 acts playing across the weekend on three indoor stages with a total festival capacity of around 5500 people.
Tickets will be available on Thursday 3rd March at 5pm and will be £170 for room only and £180 for self catering. All tickets include accommodation in private apartments.
Last night we attended the ‘bunfight’ at the Camden Crawl curator meeting and came out feeling very happy with our choices of the bands that we picked to play on our night.
For those who didn’t tune into this process last year and wonder what the hell we are talking about the process works like this. The bands shortlisted by the many curators who are available to play are picked one by one by each individual curator in turn. Other curators may well pick the bands you want in advance of your turn and vice versa so you do end up with some surprises on your bill as we have done again this year, but generally most people walk out with at least 2 bands they desperately wanted.
We cannot reveal our full line up just yet but we will have 5 bands on the bill at the Barfly club on Sunday May 1st. What we can tell you is that we of course (by the rules) have a varied bill of genres that include indie, hip hop, post punk and thrash. The line up’s are picked like this so that the ‘Crawl’ actually works and people move from venue to venue.
Get your tickets in advance before it sells out from here and click here for the initial evening line up. We will reveal the 5 acts that we have picked very soon.
Lady Gaga got some photo’s with Terry Richardson’s eagle eyes behind the lens and bared all for Supreme in NYC recently. Watch this video of the shoot.
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros have released their 3rd video in the 12 video series, SALVO!
Enjoy 40 Day Dream, – more magical music and film from Alex Ebert’s amazing world.
Rumours that surfaced at the end of last week regarding the passing of Phil Vane have unfortunately turned out to be true.
The 46 year old founding co-vocalist of the British hardcore punk band Extreme Noise Terror and Napalm Death allegedly passed in his sleep last Thursday and will be missed by many in the punk scene.
Extreme Noise Terror were one of the flagship bands from the 80’s punk and hardcore scenes that had notoriety worldwide alongside Napalm Death and were also favourites of BBC radio presenter John Peel who recorded Sessions with the band for the show that introduced so many people to many underground bands that you would not hear anywhere else at the time.
I remember seeing them play Murder when I was 16 on music program covering independent music called Snub TV and it blew me off the fucking earth! My record collection was suddenly filled with the most raging music ever created including ENT, Electro Hippes, Jailcell Recipes, Napalm Death, Conflict and many others so without the likes of Phil’s raging vocals this site would have never have even been thought about. To that end we owe part of this and our lifestyles from the routes we took from people such as Phil Vane.
RIP.
Stoner rock legends The Sword have announced UK tour dates for May this morning.
The 4 piece who were derailed somewhat last year when long time drummer Trivett Wingo left the band due to his problems with flying and traveling and has now been replaced by Kevin Fender who previously batted the drums for Texas hardcore legends EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEE.
Check out our video interview with the band below if you missed it last year when the mighty Warp Riders record was released.
The Sword UK tour dates are:
Sun 8-May-2011 SOUTHAMPTON JOINERS
Mon 9-May-2011 BIRMINGHAM ACADEMY 3
Tue 10-May-2011 GLASGOW CATHOUSE
Wed 11-May-2011 MANCHESTERACADEMY 3
Thu 12-May-11 ENGLAND LONDON GARAGE
Def Leppard were announed as the 3rd main headline act for Donington’s Download Festival last night which destroyed the hopes of Soundgarden fans everywhere.
Many people where hoping that Chris Cornell and his revived crew would have been announced at the top slot this year after reforming but instead, the 80’s soft rockers topped the bill and were of course on the same stage 2 years ago.
The festival also welcomed Bring Me The Horizon, Madina Lake, Southern rock-blues metallers Down, The King Blues, Bowling For Soup, Frank Turner, Trash Talk, All That Remains, Black Stone Cherry, glam rock wankers Twisted Sister and more.
Pur some sugar on yourself and get a ticket.
The mighty Les Savy Fav played a packed out Heaven venue in London last night and covered the Dead Kennedy’s classic California Über Alles in fine style.
The band known as ‘one of the best live acts in the world ever’ here at crossfire are famous for their incredible cover versions and have performed outstanding versions of Debaser by the Pixies, Nirvana tracks and plenty of others over the years. Last night’s show with Pulled Apart By Horses as support was another classic to this year’s shows, look out for them at festivals this year as both bands will give you a good reason to be happy about your life, and that is gauranteed.
Enjoy this video shot by Sherry from the show.